Prologue - Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. -Job 4:3
I - I will make him my firstborn. -Psalms 89:27
II - Open thy mouth, and drink what I give thee to drink. -II Esdras 14:38
III - Many seek the ruler's favor. -Proverbs 29:26
IV - It is good to keep close the secret of a king. -Tobit 12:7
V - A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry. -Ecclesiastes 10:19
VI - For he offereth the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee. -Leviticus 21:8
VII - Ye have set at naught all my counsel. -Proverbs 1:25
VIII - Teach me, and I will hold my tongue. -Job 6:24
IX - An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. -Proverbs 20:21
X - A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness. -Joel 2:2
XI - We will return and build the desolate places. -Malachi 1:4
XII - The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. -Proverbs 12:15
XIII - Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. -Job 33:7
XIV - Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave. -Job 33:22
XV - I am clean without transgression, I am innocent. -Job 33:9
XVI - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. -Proverbs 19:18
XVII - And they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son. -Zechariah 12:10
XVIII - The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. -Proverbs 4:19
XIX - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. -Proverbs 9:17
XX - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. -Proverbs 21:6
XXI - They have pierced my hand. -Psalms 22:16
XXII - If I wait, the grave is my house. -Job 17:13
XXIII - Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after. -Ecclesiasticus 41:3
XXIV - And his brightness was as the light... and there was the hiding of his powers. -Habakkuk 3:4
XXV - Do no secret thing before a stranger: for thou knowest not what he will bring forth. -Ecclesiasticus 8:18
XXVI - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men. -Job 33:15
XXVII - Ask now the priests concerning the law. -Haggai 2:11
XXVIII - A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. -Proverbs 20:8
Epilogue - Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. -Job 10:12